A year on from the “Unite the Right” rally during which protester Heather Heyer was killed, protesters are preparing for Sunday’s “Unite the Right 2” rally in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Park. Expect things to turn ugly as Antifa members clash with white supremacists while the police try to maintain some sort of peace.

There are also anniversary events going on in Charlottesville, Va., the site of the first “Unite the Right” rally (the one with all the tiki torches). Unfortunately, things have already turned ugly, as seen in this video from Charlottesville in which protesters join in an anti-police chant:

The Guardian’s Lois Beckett attributes the animosity toward cops to their “failure to intervene” last year.

Big picture of Charlottesville student protest right now at the University of Virginia: fury at police for their well-documented failure to intervene in white supremacist torch march violence a year ago and then escalating street violence on August 12. pic.twitter.com/rRscpIqNXw

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